Method for transmitting system information by a base node

• US 10,448,316 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telit Cinterion Deutschland GmbH
• Original Assignee: Gemalto M2M GmbH (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Breuer, Volker, Wehmeier, Lars
• Primary Examiner(s): Washington, Erika A
• Application Number:
  US16/092,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20190141615A1
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A method for transmitting system information by a base node to at least one wireless communication device camping on the base node, the base node supporting a dedicated resource region for communication devices, which is capable of being deployed at least in-band and out-of-band relative to a common frequency band. The method includes collecting a configuration parameter for said dedicated resource region according to a predetermined time period and to arrange said configuration parameter in system information blocks. If the dedicated resource region is deployed in-band and a wideband transmission session is active, adding to at least one of the system information blocks a valid subframe indication for submitting system information blocks instead of wideband transmission blocks, and transmitting said system information blocks according to said valid subframe indication. In case it is not deployed in-band, transmitting the system information blocks unchanged in a carrier frequency outside of the common frequency band.

Claims

1. Method for transmitting system information by a base node being part of a cellular wireless network, to at least one wireless communication device camping on the base node in a frame structure,

the base node being configured to support a dedicated resource region embedded in the frame structure for a subset of camping wireless communication devices, wherein the dedicated resource region is capable of being deployed at least in-band and out-of-band in relation to a common frequency band,

the method comprising the steps of:

collecting configuration parameter for said dedicated resource region according to a predetermined time period and to arrange said configuration parameter in system information blocks,

identifying if the dedicated resource region is deployed in-band,

in case it is deployed in-band and a wideband transmission session is active, adding to at least one of the system information blocks a valid subframe indication for submitting system information blocks instead of wideband transmission blocks, and transmitting said system information blocks according to said valid subframe indication,

in case it is not deployed in-band transmitting the system information blocks unchanged in a carrier frequency outside of the common frequency band.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the system information blocks are transmitted according to a coverage enhancement scheme comprising a plurality of repetitions, whereby the repetitions are transmitted in the dedicated resource region in case of in-band deployment interrupted through at least one of the wideband transmission blocks and in each subframe otherwise.

3. Method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of evaluating if the wideband transmission session is active and if the system information blocks are supposed to be transmitted according to an coverage enhancement scheme, and deploying at least one system information block out-of-band in case of the active wideband transmission session.

4. Method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of transmitting at least one system information block repeatedly according to a frequency hopping sequence by aligning the frequency hopping sequence with the wideband transmission and adding a frequency hopping indication in a second system information block,

wherein the frequency hopping sequence is leading to an out-of-band deployment of said at least one system information block.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein the wideband transmission session comprises at least one of:

a multimedia broadcast multicast service, or

a relay session for device-to-device operation with at least one other wireless communication device.

6. Method according to claim 1, wherein the dedicated resource region is operated according to at least one of:

narrowband-IoT modulation, or

LTE category-M.

7. Method according to claim 1, further comprising broadcasting a master information block,

wherein at least one system information block is transmitted in-band and at least one other system information block is transmitted out-of-band, wherein the deployment of the first system information block is determined by the master information block.

8. Base node being part of a cellular wireless network configured to operate with at least one wireless communication device,

the base node further being configured to transmit system information in a frame structure, and to support a dedicated resource region embedded in the frame structure for a subset of camping wireless communication devices, wherein the dedicated resource region is capable of being deployed at least in-band and out-of-band in relation to a common frequency band,

the base node comprising:

a collector for collecting a configuration parameter at least for said dedicated resource region, configured to collect according to a predetermined time period and to arrange said configuration parameter in system information blocks,

the base node further configured to;

identify if the dedicated resource region is deployed in-band,

add to at least one of said system information blocks a valid subframe indication for submitting system information blocks instead of wideband transmission blocks, in a case where in-band deployment and wideband transmission session is active, and

transmit said system information blocks according to said valid subframe indication, otherwise

transmit said system information blocks unchanged in a carrier frequency outside of the common frequency band.

9. Base node according to claim 8, further configured to operate in coverage enhancement scheme and to transmit the system information according to said coverage enhancement scheme with a plurality of repetitions,

whereby the repetitions are transmitted in the dedicated resource region in case of in-band deployment interrupted through wideband transmission blocks and in each subframe otherwise.

10. Base node according to claim 9, further configured to evaluate if the wideband transmission session is active and if the system information blocks are supposed to be transmitted according to coverage enhancement scheme, and to deploy at least one system information block out-of-band in case of the active wideband transmission session.

11. Base node according to claim 10, further configured to transmit at least one system information block repeatedly according to a frequency hopping sequence by aligning the frequency hopping sequence with the wideband transmission and adding a frequency hopping indication in a second system information block, wherein the frequency hopping sequence is leading to an out-of-band deployment of said at least one system information block.

12. Base node according to claim 8, wherein the wideband transmission session comprises at least one of:

a multimedia broadcast multicast service, or

a relay session for device-to-device operation with at least one other wireless communication device.

13. Base node according to claim 8, wherein the dedicated resource region is operated according to at least one of:

narrowband-IoT modulation, or

LTE category-M.

14. Base node according to claim 8, configured to broadcast a master information block,

further configured to transmit at least one system information block in-band and at least one other system information block is transmitted out-of-band, wherein the deployment of the first system information block is determined by the master information block.